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Shortcomings of transport network technologies were the main driver behind strong efforts of standardization …
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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a standard for the healthcare industry mandating, in part, use of the EDI X12 protocol set for data exchanges among industry members. The motivation underlying this change was the view that lack of a standard format for...
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The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in many countries have become a part of national legislation or common practice today. Ukraine, as well, has made the first steps towards the adoption of IFRS taking into view the national specifics. However, the adapting international...
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The outcome of the activity of International Chamber of Commerce in Paris is the result of years of effort in bringing together different business practices conducted by merchants. One concern of the Chamber is to provide merchants information on international commercial usages. These legal...
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In this paper we construct bilateral emission trade balances (ETB) for The Netherlands with 17 regions and compare results for 1996 and 2007 for three different greenhouse gasses. We establish a cross-sectional analysis of bilateral ETBs into a volume of trade, composition and technology effect....
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In many statistical analysis methods, standardization of the sample data is usually recommended to prevent the results … from being strongly affected by the scale of measurement of the variables. This paper focuses on the standardization of … first. We then proposed the standardization method of interval symbolic data and conducted a simulation study to evaluate …
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This paper studies an under-explored phenomenon: standardization arising during the technology development stage from …
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production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are … adapted to be produced using unskilled labor. Our framework highlights a number of novel results. First, standardization is … standardization rate (and of competition). Second, we characterize the growth and welfare maximizing speed of standardization. We show …
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departures from the norm and from standard approaches. Indeed, standardization is often seen as an impediment to innovation … article points to the need to consider a range of different dimensions in the relationship between standardization and …
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This article aims to understand the effects of rationalized health programs (the basic components of which are efficiency, calculability, predictability and control) on local practices. We discuss how a successful U.S. intervention in preventive youth health care (the Nurse Family Partnership)...
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